Comments on: 1988 Countdown #87: Kylie Minogue, “The Loco-Motion” http://rulefortytwo.com/2008/07/22/1988-countdown-87-kylie-minogue-the-loco-motion/ The Self-Aggrandizing Website of Gavin Edwards Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:20:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Gavin http://rulefortytwo.com/2008/07/22/1988-countdown-87-kylie-minogue-the-loco-motion/#comment-221 Gavin Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:17:47 +0000 http://rulefortytwo.com/2008/07/22/1988-countdown-87-kylie-minogue-the-loco-motion/#comment-221 There's three Kylie singles that made the US top-40 charts besides the two top-ten hits I mentioned: "Lucky" was a #1 hit in many other parts of the world, but just made #28 here. "It's No Secret" was the followup to "The Loco-Motion," and stalled at #37. And "Love at First Sight" tried to capitalize on "Can't Get You Out of My Head," but topped out at #23. I did know about "Where the Wild Roses Grow," which is a nice piece of work, even if the Cave/Minogue pairing seems a bit random. I think the better video to come out of a relationship of hers was "Come Into My World," from when she was dating photographer/director Stephane Sedanoui. <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=cUueEVXw7ec" rel="nofollow">Check it out</a>--it's seriously brilliant. There’s three Kylie singles that made the US top-40 charts besides the two top-ten hits I mentioned: “Lucky” was a #1 hit in many other parts of the world, but just made #28 here. “It’s No Secret” was the followup to “The Loco-Motion,” and stalled at #37. And “Love at First Sight” tried to capitalize on “Can’t Get You Out of My Head,” but topped out at #23.

I did know about “Where the Wild Roses Grow,” which is a nice piece of work, even if the Cave/Minogue pairing seems a bit random. I think the better video to come out of a relationship of hers was “Come Into My World,” from when she was dating photographer/director Stephane Sedanoui. Check it out–it’s seriously brilliant.

]]> By: Chris M. http://rulefortytwo.com/2008/07/22/1988-countdown-87-kylie-minogue-the-loco-motion/#comment-220 Chris M. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:22:29 +0000 http://rulefortytwo.com/2008/07/22/1988-countdown-87-kylie-minogue-the-loco-motion/#comment-220 Nicely written, especially the Americans-missed-out-on-Kylie angle. One of my trips to London was in fall ’01, just as Kylie was releasing "Can't Get You Out of My Head," and the British press was falling all over itself gushing over her--"our Madonna," "the indefatigable pop queen," etc. For a moment, I kind of believed them; "Can't" is an ace single, one of the best pop songs this decade IMHO. (I even liked most of the <i>Fever</i> album.) But I do feel totally at sea when it comes to her ’90s career. (Are you aware of her single with Nick Cave, of all people?!) I do recall that in the U.S., back in ’88, she actually broke with an earlier, smaller hit called "If I Should Be So Lucky," an even chirpier bit of synth-pop that scraped our Top 40. If you could package a song in a generic white box with the words "STOCK-AITKEN-WATERMAN HIT" written in block letters on the front, "Lucky" would be inside. (My favorite SAW hit of all time: Donna Summer's ’88 comeback hit, "This Time I Know It's for Real," which managed to graft their sound to her disco vibe in a remarkably credible way.) I have no clear memory of the "Loco-Motion" video, other than the basic look of it, and thus didn't recall the letterbox-bars joke. It is fairly witty, especially coming from a Brit. Duran Duran, in its Russell Mulcahy-directed clips from ’82–’84, basically invented the look and feel of the high-concept music video, and those clips were all letterboxed; it became <i>the</i> look for vids that wanted to exude "quality." When letterboxing came to home-video in the ’90s with high-end VHS and DVD, I already knew what it was thanks to my love of old Duran Duran videos. Nicely written, especially the Americans-missed-out-on-Kylie angle. One of my trips to London was in fall ’01, just as Kylie was releasing “Can’t Get You Out of My Head,” and the British press was falling all over itself gushing over her–”our Madonna,” “the indefatigable pop queen,” etc. For a moment, I kind of believed them; “Can’t” is an ace single, one of the best pop songs this decade IMHO. (I even liked most of the Fever album.) But I do feel totally at sea when it comes to her ’90s career. (Are you aware of her single with Nick Cave, of all people?!)

I do recall that in the U.S., back in ’88, she actually broke with an earlier, smaller hit called “If I Should Be So Lucky,” an even chirpier bit of synth-pop that scraped our Top 40. If you could package a song in a generic white box with the words “STOCK-AITKEN-WATERMAN HIT” written in block letters on the front, “Lucky” would be inside.

(My favorite SAW hit of all time: Donna Summer’s ’88 comeback hit, “This Time I Know It’s for Real,” which managed to graft their sound to her disco vibe in a remarkably credible way.)

I have no clear memory of the “Loco-Motion” video, other than the basic look of it, and thus didn’t recall the letterbox-bars joke. It is fairly witty, especially coming from a Brit. Duran Duran, in its Russell Mulcahy-directed clips from ’82–’84, basically invented the look and feel of the high-concept music video, and those clips were all letterboxed; it became the look for vids that wanted to exude “quality.” When letterboxing came to home-video in the ’90s with high-end VHS and DVD, I already knew what it was thanks to my love of old Duran Duran videos.

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